Slander, to be buried, 360; a snare of Satan, 360.
Sleep, sweet to the weary, 352; a medicine, 395.
Sloth, requires chastisement, 431; banished by fear, 439; danger of, under prosperity, 452,
463.
Snares, beset us on all sides, 440; wife, children, etc., may become, 441; same, catch men
again, 441.
Sobriety, needful before going to church, 400; of country people, 466.
Socrates, on the faculty of women for learning, 470, n.; opinions on punishment, 375, n.
Sodom, its greatness no defense, 456; a perpetual witness, 466.
Soldiers, Christians are, 357; Christian, incapacitated by dread, 376; employed at the trials
at Antioch, 426; intemperate particularly in battle, 433; on guard prevent robbers, 439;
alert for conquest, 459; reverence their officers, 472.
Solomon, made trial of luxury, 352; his thoughts on mirth, 440; learned in Art and Science
by God, 456.
Sores, treatment of, 387.
Sorrow, an occasion of joy to Saints, 461.
Soul, the, to be adorned for Christ's dwelling, 350; medicine for, 358; the only proper object
of concern, 397; subject to infirmity to prevent pride, 414; wounded by swearing, 438;
stedfast, is proof against danger, 446; of unconverted, an old wine-skin, 449; philosophy
of the even, in all events, 454; dignity of, in virtue, 457; like the body as affected from
without, 462; the seat of philosophy, 465; beauty of, to be admired, 466; under the fear
of God like a rusty tool in the furnace, 480; sign of greatness of, looking to God, 482.
Spark, falling on the ocean, 460.
Speculations, on the Universe above us, 411; folly of, 421; improper on Divine commands,
447.
Speech, how precious, is certain, 332; how restrained, 397.
Spider, not esteemed because he toils for himself, 420.
Spirit Holy, gives matter for discourse, 332, 347; all His gifts munificent, 332; His gold needs
His flame, 332; enters not where wrath is, 479.
Stability, type of, 402.
Stadium, 416, n.
Stars, like flowers, 408.
State, without Rulers, illustrated, 381; dependence of members on each other in, 417; not
saved by multitude, 457.
Statuary's skill on rude materials, 414.
Statues, of the Emperor demolished, 344; a device of Satan, 439; Theodosius's mother and
wife, dishonoured, 484, n.; for humaneness, 485; of Constantine, dishonoured, 485.
Stibadium, 489, n.
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